2012 - Volume #36, Issue #2, Page #18
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Tile Finder Helps Locate Old Lines
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The Tile Finder consists of a 650-ft. reel of heavy copper wire “rod” and a 512 Hz transmitter and receiver. The transmitter sends a signal to the end of the wire rod, which is fed down a line of tile. The handheld receiver shows the exact location and depth of the tile.
“A lot of farmers are buying their own tile plows and spending a lot of time searching for existing tile. Once you find a tile outlet or inlet, you don’t always know where that tile goes,” says Murphy. “In addition, the transmitter lets you pinpoint exactly where the end of the wire rod is so if the rod hits an obstruction, you can dig down and free it up.”
He says customers are saving money with the system. “One farmer put in several hundred thousand feet of lateral tile and uses his Tile Finder to locate all the tile mains before he goes in with his tile plow. That way he can put in additional tile without damaging any existing tile. Another farmer saved the cost of putting in 20,000 feet of 8-in. tile by using the Tile Finder to locate a lot of main tile lines he didn’t know he already had. He canceled the order and simply ran smaller laterals to the existing main tile lines.”
Murphy says a locator that’s included with the system can also be used to identify the location of many kinds of underground utilities, including phone, cable, gas, electric, and metallic water lines.
The system sells for $4,570 plus S&H.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Maverick, Inc., P.O. Box 466, Slater, Iowa 50244 (ph 800 685-2818; www. gomaverickinc.com).
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